Larissa Shaw

Thesis title:

Why Women remain on trial: A retrospection of the Witch in historical medical practice to centralise contemporary narratives in endometriosis healthcare and the gender pain-gap

Research Area

Visual Arts

Publications

☼ Art Workers Between Self Organising and Collectivity -- Pooleyville article, written with Thomas Eke, Lucie MacGregor, Emily Roderick, as Matters of Interest (2021). Readable here: https://pooleyville.city/articles/art-workers-between-self-organising-and-collectivity

☼ All we Every Wanted Was Everything -- a-n 40th anniversary newsletter. Collaborative publication with Black Hole Club (2021). Readable here: https://issuu.com/anartistsinfo/docs/artists_newsletter_issue_1_1980s_black_hole_club

☼ Mayday Reader. Collaborative publication with Vivid Projects, Birmingham (2020). Readable here: https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/7090816/d24dd1442fcd4f95f1e9e94dfc28b764.pdf?1588262087&fbclid=IwAR2Z1UBdH2pZBT9DiUSFfGSrB30ALtVef1K3gbXkspmZzeOQQRdpjYgSMwQ

☼ Archive, Exchange, and Process in a Pandemic: Conversation Between Leanne O'Connor and Larissa Shaw. Published by Radical Art Review (2020). Readable here: https://www.academia.edu/50839053/Archive_Exchange_and_Process_in_a_Pandemic_Conversation_Between_Leanne_OConnor_and_Larissa_Shaw_audio_accessible_curation_lockdown_Visual_Arts

☼ Art Licks Weekend 2019 London. Group publication with Grand Union group GU WOMEN) (2019). Readable here: https://www.academia.edu/50838945/Small_Acts_of_Care

☼ Critical Sound, a review of the Haroon Mirza exhibition at IKON Gallery, Birmingham (2019). Readable here: https://www.ikon-gallery.org/news/view/critical-sound

☼ Post-Matter: Wearable Art that Blurs the Boundaries between Body and Environment (2017) Readable here: https://esthesis.org/post-matter-wearable-art-that-blurs-the-boundaries-between-bodies-and-environment-larissa-e-shaw/

Conferences

♒︎ National Trust & New Art West Midlands residency conference at University of Birmingham (2019)

♒︎ Random String conference at Coventry University (2019)

Other Research Interests

My wider interests include disability and gender studies, Renaissance depictions of the female body, and working-class AFAB* oral histories. I am currently training as a death midwife, exploring liminal spaces between life and death, and how cultural understandings of care persist beyond the boundaries of the living body.

*AFAB = Assigned female at birth. This term is inclusive of Trans, Genderqueer, and Non-Binary identities, reflexive of the research objectives.

Memberships

Fellow of AdvanceHE